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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. When it comes to manufacturing, the country has lost the capacity for “learning by doing.” America’s problem?

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

As a recent British study highlighted, refugees, like everyone else, don’t want work that simply passes their time, but rather gives them meaningful things to do. It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. The right credentials.